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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1878)
November, 1878. THE WEST SHORE. 79 to ' tight to you, Miu Margery, for naming them turkeys for me. "The heft of the people in this section are interested in the war leastways they pertend to be; and when 1 (hewed 'em. the names o' them turkeys on my order-book, there was een a'most a scrimmage to see who'd get hii name down opposite the high-ioundingeit of 'em. Dickson, the restaurant keeper, hex it printed on the ousters he'll hang in the !;. ... Tiiaukagiving Uay : 'Mehemet Ali beheadod this morning. This great Turk to be rallied for at onr free lunch. 1 And Miss Frothingham told me she was going to put her turkey's name into all her invitations. She shewed me one of the menoot that that young lady who is stayin' there painted for her on white satin. She's printed Suleiman 1'aaha in whnt sho calls Tur key red, with guns and moons and little cupidses, in turbans and baggy trowsers all around the border. They do say Fred Frothing ham's going to marry her. She's some sort of relation to his fust wife. I say, Miss Margery, it seems kinder curus to mo there thud be so many generals in Turkey by the namo of Pasha. The only way I kin account fur it is that it must have been the name of the last sultan. They say that the sultans have wives enough to till a female seminary, and that the sultan's craok regiment is made of his own sous. I don't know how I should have managed about naming my turkeys if it hadn't a-bun for the I'asha family. A whole brood of turkeys came off after you sent me that list of names, and 1 called 'em Constantinople Pasha, an' Hagilad I'asha, an' Hosphorus I'asha, an' one on 'em Jerky-nek-off Pasha ; though my wife said that was kind of mixin' things, fur it seomed to her that Jerky-nek-off sound led more Hooshan than Turkey. 1 did very well with the whole flock except in the Sultan, the very biggest and gamest follor of all. I.I weigh "S pounds easy, an tail feathers enough to maku half a dnxen handsome fans. 1 prided myself on thu Sultan, but I'm going to lose money on him. You see the ladies of the Methodist vhuroh at B'thesdy Springs hed come to the conclusion that the tabernacle, thouuh it was a Bond enough nlace for the sum mar boarders to sit religion in, was too windy und chilly a place to get up any sort of religious warmin' daring the winter ; an' they'd voted to have a fair about Thanksgiving time to raise money to build a ohapel. Well, after they'd engaged the Sultan of me. an' advertised him iu all the papers as one of the attractions, what'il thoy do but conclude they coiildn t allord take him unless I'd donate him. The idee ! When I'd been fattening him up all summer expressly fur them, an' declined him to Miss Frothingham and Mr. Dickson, who'd either on 'em have given a good price for him ! And the most aggravating thing about it is that Kldcr sDueenbury has sold 'em his six-year-old lame gobbler ; and that every one that tackles him will think it's the Sultan, and my turkeys will lose their reputation. "I declare now, Miss Margery, the idee just strikes me that the Sultan is just tho turkey for vou. It would please me fust rata for you to have the best bird in my lot. You must wear out a ight of winirs a dusting, you're so neat and the Sultan's are strong enough to last a year. I'll throw off a shillin ', seeing it you, and take half out in dicker. One thing I came round fur was to set all the sweet malorum you can spin.-. There's alius a cull for it about this season." Margery hail stood, while the old man was talking, beneath the little porch, whose pillars had been lifted out of the ground by the strong old vines that twisted about them in such snakev contortions. An amused smile had flickered on her face as she listened. "Hut lima, the expostulated, --me nuiun is entirety too large for a Thanksgiving dinner for only poor little me. "I didn't know but you might have com psny," suggested Bins. "The old people from me lown nouse naven i nau a regular ou giving dinner tince the one you gave mem. " that whatever is left from the church festival is to be sent there, so that they are provided for this year. However, I will take the Sultan. You may shut him up in the dog-kenneL We haven't kept a dog since cousin Jack went away. And you may have my w hole stock of sweet marjoram ; for I shall not kill the Sultan thit year, and perhaps I shall give him away." And lima drove awav with the ,wt mrU.. ....... .Margery peering admiringly into tho SnltaiTs prison. All this time Jack was coming nearer and nearer, to help her celebrate Thanksgiving ; for Jack had his ttory too. Hu had becu unfortunate ever since his return to California. Kverything hail gone wroug. And ho did not care, for wealth was nothing to him without Margery, lie had came back that autumn years ago to claim her. As he stvpiwd trom the cart, tho tlrst perton whom he met was the village doctor, who shook hands with him pleasantly aud offered him a ride. "What it the newt, Doctor," wat Jack's Ins! question "Kverything it about at usual," replied the phyiician. "Let me see. Frud Frotliiiighani was a friend of yours. Was he not? He has come hack from the war, wounded ; hut I guess wo will pull him through. I h sweet face of his little nurse would make any man well, 1 should think, even if he hail not the luck to he engaged to her, which Fred has. " What, Fred engaged J" atked Jack. "And rhom ?" "Why, to your Cousin Margery, to lie tun1. I thought you would kuow of it." "Doctor, are you turn of thit?'' atked Jack a little unsteadily. "ill course, 1 am. Mrs. r rothingliain told me; and I have even more potitive proof, for I have just left the house, and Mm Margery wat nursing the young man. After that Jack staid in Baxter's only long enough to see, from the door of the little shop opposite, Murgery taking leave of Mrs. Y roth ingliam, at the head ol the great night oi stone steps. Then he shut his sore heart up within an iron will, ami went back to I alum ma. The yuan that followed were a long and dreary desert in his life. I'erhaiietiud wrtnita us to live through such years of blackness and weariness to show us by contrast the exceeding precioutness of the Joy he has in store for ut. And in Jack lived on until the autumn of which wo have been speaking. Then all hit mistor tune seemed to culminate. He onuld nowhuru lind employment and he was very iioor. At a last retort, he accepted the potitiou of bar ten ler ill a saloon. He was new to the. business, and the proprietor proceeded to give him tome instructions. I lie veteran in iirinss urn con cocted a mint-julep, after tome infallible rauiM if hit own. i'hero !" ssid he. "Try thst young man and owu up that you never tasted anything like it in your life. '1 would rather vou would taste ami see u it right, sir." replied Jack. A proposition readily complied with by the inter of in toxicating beverages, and followed by a fright (nl scone of choking and expectoration. "There is something wrong about the mint, h spot tered; aud then, examining the pad of M ortvt noon his counter, hnntrlainieil: ' 11 lasted I thst stupid market woman hasn't bit me sweet intrioraiu. instead of sliearmiiit '" The word tweet marjoram recalled to Jack sea dear mrl for whom it always termed to him . : r a c t i that the little Plant must nave neon uaiueu. What would the hsve thought of his preteiil o. conation? And then and there lit resigned his position as bar-Undsr, obtaining from his would-be employer the little bouquet of sweet minute and tircstiaig it between the leaves of hlS Ingle ted lllllls. I It. t UOW lit had nothing r . . . . i . . ., ' to look tor tuutlttence, ami ne ims.. that he hail been spending the summer in 'ali fomia, and had invested in a fruit-farm, which he hoped to visit one in two years, and thai ha was now in search of some one to keep it (or him. "I am the very man you want," cried Jack, impulsively. And then, at a sudden thought ttruck him, he asked, "Shell vou brias? voar a!, W t , Vl ...... ' hHiV iwu, nttuu yuw UUII1V, rnu I "My wife died live years ago." replied Fred. gravely. Jack staggered at though he had boeu ttruck. Margery dead I he exclaimed. "Margery I" reiterated the other in surprise. "My wife wat Hose Itateiuan. I would not tell every one, Jack: but your Cousin Margery re futed me, and alter 1 met Itoeo 1 was not sorry for it" Aud to it wis settled that Jack should keep the fruit-farm for his friend. "There it a very pretty cottage un it," said Fred, "and with all those pears and grapet, you will soon be a nan man.' He was surprised that Jack was not willing to enter uixin his duties at one; but the young man insisted on purchasing a ticket to Baxter's with the advance money whtoh Fred gavu him. Ami this wss how it happened that there wat a Thanksgiving diuuer that year at Margery's, and that the Sultan left his prison in the ken nel, aud was decapitated on the tarns evening wiin nit generals oi me on repeated name oi I'asha. Dear me !" said Margery, in dismay, as ana dressed the turkey, "and to think thai, among all my herbs, i haven I a sprig ol sweet marjoram (or the stuffing." Hut I have, replied Jack, a ha brought forwanl his Hible, with the little sprays pressed between its leaves Hie tears su si Ml in Mar gery's eyes as ho tobl their storyi and I do not think one of the precious leaves would have heel, lis, ,1 111 the NlllUll's shilling had the lint thought that nothing was too good for her wed- ling diuuer. Fred Frothinitham wat at the wedding. And now you can understand," said Jack to him, "why 1 waa so tin puis to oome hast. F.veu iu a land flowing with milk and honey one may long for cold water, and all your orchard of pleasant fruits could nut make me forget a little garden of herbs." Aud you wanted to transplant one of Its flowers to the l'scillu coast V untried Fred. What flower f" atked Margery uu.iou- scioutly. . a a a . . . . t , S A peal ol laughter ran arounn tne tame, aim Jack passed up his plate (for Margery had In sisted on carving the Snlt-u herself) with the leiniire i. .p.. si "My dear, if you please, l will takeHweel Marjoram." N. f. Imltptmitnl. I'UF.I'AIIATION OK KUt'AI-YFTUH. We have uueu before a mini hat of preparations ..f the mediuinal pniicipleelnlheeuimlyptna. At the material la au abundant In thit State, lie uta mutt be an ohjeot of interest The Journal of Chmuiry translates from a French smite, the billowing formulae : 'I in.-t.ire of Ku. tlypi.is. Take of dried leaves of eucalyptus leal pi I part ; tlc.b.d, at W, ft parts i allow P. maiievaie lor sen nays, niter. Wine f F.mslviitsM. -Tefce of dried leavet of eucalyptui, 3D pert. ; alw-hol at tUT, i parte. k-,,..d while wine, l,uw perls allow u. macerate in lb.- aloohul fur v'l boors, then add Use wine , after ten days, Hilar. Mydr.. Akuhollc KstraeltH Kaoaiy ptea. -1 aae ol drted eucalyptus leavee (eat up) 1,000 parti water, .I.IKKI parte ; diaui to oniaiu tne i ml ; make an anuw-ut silrael ol lite remainine in the apparatus, and lo II add niter I ae aieoannc ale.,1.,,1 at no. I. two tatrts. V Battel I". SWassisJSBW " - . I 7 ' I .a a a a. . . a tolately towards ths depot, woiwlenng what solution ami evaporate II to the ooMieteaev of would be the next scene m the strange .1 reave, an eilract when nearly cold, mil Ue "Utile The tram from the mountains was Just in, ana mi morougniy wun is. ins amner since mo est you - - . a.!....!.. ' Mrs. Duseubury told mi," replied Margery, 1 men greeted eao other pleasantly ll would Imp satisfactory to add notes of ....... i i. t-'rth.a.laai. The two visum anaetal a see of taeee nniirttlias, Dat of n - - a. .SI 1 . a A r reu sera we nave u miuiraai - y springing from it Jack was surprised to sea his .1